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Marvelous, passionate, and charming ….Anne Lamott

I can’t think of a better book on the craft of memoir….This is a masterclass.Katherine May

This insightful, empowering book should be on every writer’s shelf. — Maggie Smith


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Motherland is gorgeous ... A complicated work of lyrically-wrought prose with a quiet surprise on ever page.
— Lambda Literary Review
 

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Elissa Altman is a beautiful, big-hearted writer who mines her most central subject: her gorgeous, tempestuous, difficult mother and the terrain of their shared life. The result is a testament to the power of love and family.
— Dani Shapiro, author of Signal Fires

 

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